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journalize

American  
[jur-nl-ahyz] / ˈdʒɜr nlˌaɪz /
especially British, journalise

verb (used with object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.

  2. to enter or record in a journal.

  3. (in double-entry bookkeeping) to enter in a journal, preparatory to posting to the ledger.


verb (used without object)

journalized, journalizing
  1. to keep or make entries in a journal.

journalize British  
/ ˈdʒɜːnəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to record (daily events) in a journal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of journalize

First recorded in 1760–70; journal + -ize

Example Sentences

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Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind.

From Salon Apr. 11, 2013

He essayed to journalize his experiences on the road; but he lost patience in recording the little incidents which composed them.

From One Of Them by Charles James Lever

Little by little he learned to invoice and journalize and "post in the ledger" and all the rest of the detail of bookkeeping.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

I cannot journalize, cannot arrange my ideas into order.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The cloud scenery gives such variety to a hilly landscape that it would be worth while to journalize its aspect from hour to hour.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had no information more than he had given, but he bravely journalized, "Mr. Glover and everybody, ma'am."

From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

It will be noticed that in this fragment the scene is at first laid in New England, whereas the journalized sketch opened the drama in England.

From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

Henry the Morgue had started his journalizing in a small way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh," she cried, "what a little beast I am, to make you feel like that, when you're journalizing and agonizing day and night, and when it's your own savings that you flung.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

It is quite fortunate for me that I have no household cares, for I have a double portion of journalizing.

From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing his agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin

There is no use in trying to break off journalizing, particularly in "these trying times."

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson

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